6th District Race: Bob Gray Opens Campaign Office In East Cobb

EAST COBB, GA -- Sixth District candidate Bob Gray has opened a second campaign office, this time in East Cobb, his campaign announced Thursday.

Gray is looking to build momentum after the grand opening at his Johns Creek headquarters, where more than 100 supporters rallied around the businessman.

His campaign also announced a series of meet-and- greets around the district, which encompasses affluent areas of Cobb, DeKalb and Fulton counties.

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“I enjoy being out on the campaign trail. We’re not buying this campaign through TV ads,” Gray said in a statement. “I’m using shoe leather.”

Gray, a former Johns Creek City Councilman, has a background in IT, having served as president of commercial services for NTT Data, the fifth-largest information technology company in the world. He has also held executive positions at Keane, Bearing Point, Capgemini and served as partner at Ernst & Young.

His campaign manager said that the meet-and-greets are a grassroots approach to connecting with everyday people.

"We’re continuing this trend of outworking every other campaign by taking our message directly to the voters. We’re spreading the campaign’s conservative, outsider message district-wide by opening another office in Cobb County and hosting a series of events,” Gray campaign manager Tyler Jacobs said in a statement.

A Republican pollster, zpolitics/Clout Research, said in a survey last week that political neophyte Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, was leading the 6th District race, garnering 41 percent, while Gray and former Republican Secretary of State Karen Handel were locked in a dead heat at 16 percent.

The race will culminate in a special election to be held on April 18. The race is a "jungle primary," meaning anyone can run. If no candidate earns 50% plus one of the vote, a runoff election will be held on June 20 among the top two vote-getters.

Meet-and- Greet Schedule:

March 26

Cobb HQ Grand Opening

2440 Sandy Plains Rd

Marietta, GA

2PM - 4PM

March 27

Gate City Brewing Co.

43 Magnolia St

Roswell, GA

6PM - 8PM

March 30

Atlanta Country Club

500 Atlanta Country Club Dr.

Marietta, GA

6:30PM - 8:30PM

March 31

Mazzy Sports Bar

2217 Roswell Rd.

Marietta, GA

7PM - 9PM

April 4

Downwind Restaurant

2000 Airport Rd.

Chamblee, GA

6PM - 8PM

April 6

Your Pie

123 Perimeter Center

Dunwoody, GA

7PM - 9PM

Image courtesy of Gray campaign